Resentment—“to feel again”—traps us in past pain, repackaging memory as perpetual injury.
Nietzsche’s "ressentiment" expands this wound into a worldview: a personality anchored in grievance, which goes beyond specific hurts into suppression and pervasive hatred.
When injustice becomes identity, rage seeks eruption without resolution: a raging death drive. The self becomes its own prison, guarding the injury that defines it, seeing the cage and torment in every interaction.